Sarah Barkla @tomesandtech.bsky.social

I'd pretty much abandoned this handle here without deleting the account. That was an oversight. Moving to Bluesky - @tomesandtech.bsky.social I plan to delete this account by the end of September 2024.

LARK Symposium 2024: Sneak Peak #2 Looking but not finding - a research journey to understand OERs by @dannykay68 @sarahlibsys Kay Steele & Richard White Gamification for reading by Helen Weston Be inspired, be there! Registrations are open till 23 Sep lark.alia.org.au/lark-symposium…

"Libraries really can’t afford to buy as many digital books as they should be buying.... So people are waiting and of course not understanding why the wait is so long for an e-book." Library ebook costs ultimately harm the people libraries are for. govtech.com/biz/data/behin…

Did you know that currently around 68% of journals in DOAJ are Diamond open access? blog.doaj.org/2022/09/20/doa… via @DOAJplus

Off to England to talk about LUX with... British Library, V&A, National Gallery, National Archives, Natural History Museum, Oxford University, Cambridge University, and so on. So happy it's gaining traction, and excited to see who's next. lux.collections.yale.edu #YaleLUX

The growing world of open access books | OPERAS Innovation Lab ift.tt/Ra7ZgU6

In exciting #RightsRetention news, I’m delighted that @SussexUni approved a Publications and Copyright policy today. This has been a huge, collective effort and this is such good news for our research community. Well done @SussexLibOpen 🤩

Do Articles Shared by Academic Medicine Social Media Influencers Drive Future Citation Rates? - Urology ift.tt/rjqux8n

Two great #OA introductions to #syntax: a basic and an advanced one, by Mike Barrie. Many different languages featured, easy to read, and free. Enjoy! And thanks Mike! dropbox.com/s/hrw56nbwt0oh… dropbox.com/s/jvg6s3ysfj9n…

@UKRI_News reaffirm that funding APCs for articles published in @cOAlitionS_OA approved Transformative Journals will cease at the end of 2024 (in line with cOAlition S guidance. ) See: ukri.org/news/ukri-upda…

The @oxforduni_repo team have an exciting announcement! You can now request a DOI for an expanded range of research outputs, including working papers, datasets, audiovisual media and more - see this post for more details : openaccess.ox.ac.uk/2023/05/22/doi…

ALL CONNECTED - If we only think of 'openness' as something that happens after the fact, then we are not doing is the things that need to happen earlier to mean the outputs are more credible - great opening talk from @BrianNosek youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0IBu…

Can you bee-lieve this brilliant bug is over 3500 years old? 🐝✨ It was made by the Minoans, who inhabited the island of Crete from around 3000 BC. They used the bee to symbolise power and prosperity, making it a frequent motif in their art and jewellery Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝

UK students launch ebook petition. academicebookinvestigation.org/2023/05/17/uk-…

OER as a Catalyst for Innovation in Higher Education - Encore+ Project ift.tt/Wvdtyph

OER as Catalyst for Business-University Cooperation ift.tt/NnHO9w4

26th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2023_ ift.tt/4icrNdC

"Gold open access is driving the destruction of bibliodiversity" - super important and interesting piece by Lai Ma (@erasurist) via @UKSG #OpenAccess

A launch today for the new UCL Research Institute for Collections - with digitisation programmes, research fellowships, project work & a community for all collections/collectors in UCL. An auspicious day! @profgeraintrees @DavidPriceUCL @UCLSpecColl @UCLLibraries @UCL_Culture

Springer Nature's method regarding authors’ rights retention isn't about rejection; it’s about deflection, observes @SallyRumsey1 in her latest post. Here is how: ✍️coalition-s.org/blog/springer-… #OpenAccess #RetainYourRights #ScholarlyCommunication #SpringerNature